Four varieties of Novena are available: just the board for $500; an all-in-one desktop for $1,195; a laptop for $1,195; and an heirloom laptop with a hand-crafted wood and aluminium case for $5,000.

Boards are expected to ship from November this year, with the other SKUs becoming available over the following six months. The laptop and desktop machines will be designed to allow easy access to the motherboard, as it will not be blocked by the keyboard mounting plate.

Because the project broke through its stretch goals, the team behind Novena is working on a number of additional features including: free software 2D/3D graphics drivers for the machine, a ROMulator breakout board and a MyriadRF software defined radio. The team will also offer a general-purpose breakout board able to buffer 16 FPGA outputs and eight FPGA inputs and provide six 10-bit analog inputs (up to 200ksps sample rate) and two 10bit analog outputs (with about 100ksps max rate).